Armed moviegoers would have stopped Holmes: Ted Nugent

The Colorado killing spree of James Holmes would have been stopped if other Batman moviegoers had packed heat into the theater, rocker, reality TV star, and National Rifle Association director Ted Nugent argued in tweets on Wednesday.

“We pray for all victims & loved ones of demonshooter in CO & we SALUTE the brave warriors who saves lives IF only they would hav had a good gun,” Nugent declared.

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It is at best questionable whether a shootout in a darkened theater would have saved lives or upped the casualty count.

The argument was followed up a few hours later with more claims from Nugent, recently in the news for an anti-Obama rant at the NRA convention and an illegal hunting conviction in Alaska. He said:

Nugent is on questionable grounds. Holmes carried an AR-15 semi-automatic assault weapon int the Aurora, Colorado, theater with a 100 drum magazine. The Sale of the AR-15 was illegal under an assault weapons ban passed by Congress in 1994, but allowed to expire in 2004.

The AR-15 jammed, forcing Holmes to use other less rapid and less lethal weapons. He still killed 12 people, and victims remain in comas five days after the shooting.